[Click] PollDevice takes kclick to 99.9% CPU

[rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu]

On 9:26 am 05/20/10 Peter Dedecker <Peter.Dedecker at intec.ugent.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it a normal behaviour that using a simple script with PollDevice, 
> count, bandwidthshaper and toDevice, results in a 99.9% CPU usage of
> the kclick thread, even when no packets are sent or recieved?

Yes.  This is because PollDevice is always rescheduling polling tasks and
hence is always running.

> 
> I use the 1.8.0 version of click with a 2.6.24.7 patched kernel and 
> patched e1000e driver on PCI-E cards. I couldn't get the current click 
> snapshot compiled.

You should post the compilation error to the list.

Roman

> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
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